For all the gearheads out there

[gregzz4]

One other thing that comes to mind is while I was sitting in air care at the end of August and she got warm for about an hour maybe that allowed the intake manifold the warp just a slight bit and gave room for the gasket to crack
Then when I put the distributor back in last weekend I got it off by one cylinder and it backfired a couple times
This may have blown the gasket out when it was originally only cracked
As I said I can't say for sure